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Authors Pull Ethereum Staking Reward Burn From Hegotá

The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, naming Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered.

Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

The year's third Base upgrade lets traders submit transactions that stay dormant until price or block conditions are met, and adds three changes to the B20 token standard behind Coinbase's tokenized stocks. Base's documentation for the new transaction method lists it as running on test networks.

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Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

How to get a Robinhood Chain RPC endpoint: a step-by-step guide

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Polygon Plans Two-Month Boost to 7.7% Gross POL Staking Rate

Buterin Maps Ethereum's Post-Hegota 'Cryptographic World Computer'

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Solana

Solana’s Alpenglow Goes Live on Devnet Ahead of Mainnet Migration

Anza is asking app developers to test programs and integrations as the upgrade moves validator voting off-chain. Mainnet activation remains pending.

Tokenized-Stock Holder Count Reaches 4.3 Million, Led by BNB Chain

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Trading Terminals Post First $1 Billion Day Since January 2025

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Ethereum

Authors Pull Ethereum Staking Reward Burn From Hegotá

The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, naming Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered.

Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

Kalshi Files to End Volume Incentive Program

Ethlabs Says CCIP 2.0 Cuts Ethereum Confirmation Wait to Seconds

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Recent articles

Authors Pull Ethereum Staking Reward Burn From Hegotá

The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, naming Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered.

Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

How to get a Robinhood Chain RPC endpoint: a step-by-step guide

A Robinhood Chain RPC endpoint is the connection an application uses to read from and write to Robinhood Chain, the Ethereum layer 2 built for finance and tokenized real-world assets. It works with standard Ethereum tooling, but its traffic changes how an endpoint should be chosen.

Polygon Plans Two-Month Boost to 7.7% Gross POL Staking Rate

The fee-funded increase compares with a roughly 3% baseline and rewards stake held during the window, rather than when the fees accrued.

Buterin Maps Ethereum's Post-Hegota 'Cryptographic World Computer'

Hegota's scheduled changes target censorship resistance and wallet flexibility; the broader vision relies on proof aggregation and open research.

StarkWare Challenge Cuts Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Compute Estimate by 79%

The AI-assisted contest targets offchain GPU work, not Bitcoin fees. The experimental method still requires a direct path to a miner.

Solana’s Alpenglow Goes Live on Devnet Ahead of Mainnet Migration

Anza is asking app developers to test programs and integrations as the upgrade moves validator voting off-chain. Mainnet activation remains pending.

Tokenized RWA in 2026: which chains hold the value, and what their RPC layer needs

Tokenized real-world assets have crossed $38 billion in distributed on-chain value, spread across treasuries, private credit, real estate, and equities. For teams deploying RWA apps, picking a chain is only half the decision. The RPC layer reading and writing to it is the other half.

Arbitrum Replaces Timeboost With Per-Transaction Priority Auctions

Priority fees and paid Fast Feed subscriptions allocate 97% of proceeds to the DAO treasury and 3% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.

Arc Mainnet is live: How to choose the right RPC provider for builders

Arc went live on mainnet on September 16, 2026, with eleven institutional founding validators already committed. The RPC layer underneath is what determines whether any application, from a bank's settlement pipeline to onchain liquidity and swap activity, can actually ship on day one.